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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
A Standard History of Springfield and Clark County,
Ohio
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention
to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial,
Educational, Civic and Social Development
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Prepared Under the Editorial Supervision of
Dr. Benjamin F. Prince
President Clark County Historical Society
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Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors
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Volumes 2
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Published by
The American Historical Society
Chicago and New York
1922
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ED GRAM.
In the agricultural community of Madison Township one of the
best known citizens and most capable farmers is Ed
Gram, a native of Clark County, and whose life -has been
devoted to the work of his farm.
He was born in Greene Township, near Pitchin, May 19,
1860, son of Jacob and Catharine (Miller) Gram.
His father was born near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and his
mother, in Virginia. They came to Clark County when
young people, grew up here and before getting permanently
located Jacob Gram made four trips on foot between
Pennsylvania and Ohio. After his marriage he located
near Pitchin, and was a farmer in that community until his
death in 1869. The mother died in 1864. She was
a Methodist. Of their nine children Ed is the
youngest, and four are still living, the three others being:
Margaret, a widow, residing near Pleasant Grove;
Theodore C., of Springfield; and Joseph, of
Greene Township.
Ed Cram spent his early life on the
farm near Pitchin where he attended school. In 1885 he went
out to California, and spent several years in the Far West.
He returned to Clark County in June, 1888, and on Feb. 26,
1889, married Miss Ella King. Mr. and Mrs.
Gram have two daughters: Elsie M., born Dec. 9,
1890, wife of Ralph Walker; and Anna C., born
Sept. 22, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Gram are members
of the Presbyterian Church, and he is an elder in the church
at South Charleston. He is affiliated with Fielding
Lodge No. 192, F. and A. M., and took his first degrees in
that lodge in 1886 and has filled a number of its chairs.
He is a republican. The farm to which he has devoted
so many years consists of a hundred acres.
Ella King, wife of Mr. Gram, was
born in Clark County Oct. 8, 1869, daughter of Daniel and
Anna B. (Packer) King. Her father was born at
Centerville, Montgomery County, Ohio, June 16, 1839, and her
mother was born Nov. 22, 1846, daughter of Milton and
Eliza (Willis) Packer. Milton Packer was
born on Oct, 18, 1824, and his wife on July 18, 1817.
The King family is of Revolutionary ancestry.
Daniel King served as a soldier in the Civil war.
His parents were Andrew and Theresa (Fox) King, the
latter a daughter of Daniel Fox, who served as a
soldier in the War of 1812. Daniel Fox was a
son of Frederick Fox, who was a drummer boy in a
Pennsylvania Regiment during the Revolution. Mrs.
Ella King Gram was born at the old Willis Tavern,
but since early infancy has lived at the homestead where her
home is today.
SOURCE: A Standard History
of Springfield and Clark County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince,
1922 - Page 346 |
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ADAM
GRUBE. The late Adam Grube was one of
the substantial men of foreign birth who, coming to
Springfield, became valued citizens of their adopted country
and here amassed a fortune. He was born in the Rhine
province of Bavaria, Germany, a son of Jacob and
Philipena (Shearer) Grube, who in 1835 came to the
United States and after living at Tiffin, Ohio, for two
years, located at Springfield. During the time he was at
Tiffin, Jacob Grube had to work very hard in
construction work on the Wabash Canal. After coming to
Springfield he continued to work by the day until his
demise. When still a lad Adam Grube helped to
take care of his mother and brothers and sisters, working to
do so by selling produce from house to house, and his honest
measure and pleasant manner soon enabled him to build up a
large trade. As soon as he was strong enough he began
working out by the day, and in the meantime gained a
knowledge of the brick industry, entering, when only twelve
years old, the brickyard of James Robinson,
and receiving for his labors $3 per month. He was patient
and very thrifty and at last was able to go into partnership
with his brother in the purchase of fifteen acres of land,
on which the industrious young men carried on gardening.
Later he bought his brother's interest in this property. For
fourteen years he lived in a house built of logs before he
replaced it with one of brick he had himself manufactured,
for he and his two brothers, Jacob and Christian,
had gone into the brick industry, in which they continued
for six years. Then for a few years Mr. Grube
again devoted himself to gardening, but once more began to
manufacture brick, taking as his partner Charles Elmer
Grube. They gave employment to twelve men and five boys
and did a big business, but he retired from it before his
death, which occurred July 19, 1910. Adam Grube first
married Anna Mary Wilch, born in Hancock County,
Ohio, and they had eight children, the only survivor being
one son, John A., who is living in Springfield, Ohio.
After the death of his first wife, Mr. Grube
married, October 6, 1868, Gertrude Rettig, born in
Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, May 5, 1845, a daughter of John
P. and Elizabeth (Heoffley) Rettig, who settled in Henry
County, Ohio, in 1863. By his last marriage Adam Grube
had nine children, of whom four survive, namely: George
P., who is at 1756 Limestone Street, a sketch of whom
follows; Samuel D., who resides in Moorefield
Township, married Abbie J. Baker, and they have three
children, Ruth, Mrs. Robert Scifers, has two
daughters, Gertrude G. and Mary Jane Scifers;
Margaret, Mrs. H. J. Robinson, who resides with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Grube, and
Delbert I., who also lives with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
D. Grube; F. Joseph, who lives in Moorefield Township,
married Mary Helle, now deceased, who bore him one
son, Irvin A. F. Grube, with his father; and
Gertrude S., who is keeping house for her brother, F.
Joseph, in Moorefield Township, just north of
Springfield. Adam Grube was a business man of
excellent judgment and invested his money wisely. He owned
several farms in the vicinity of Springfield and the
fifty-acre addition to Springfield that is known as Grube
Addition. He belonged to Saint Luke's Evangelical Church of
Springfield, in which he was an earnest worker. The
democratic party had in him a firm supporter, although he
never cared for public honors. He did his full duty as he
saw it, was honest, sincere and helpful, and when he died
one of the best citizens of Clark County passed to his last
reward.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 186 -
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GEORGE
P. GRUBE. One of the best-known and most highly
respected families of Clark County is that bearing the name
of Grube and its members are numbered among the most
representative citizens of Springfield. One of them,
George P. Grube, of 1756 North Limestone Street, is
following a somewhat original line in his business
operations, for he is not only a poultry fancier, but also
raises Pekingese Chinese dogs and has built up a very
valuable connection in both lines. Mr. Grube was born
at Springfield, February 10, 1873, a son of Adam and
Gertrude (Rettig) Grube, natives of Hesse-Darmstadt,
Germany, a sketch of whom precedes in this work; and
grandson of Jacob and Philipena (Shearer) Grube,
natives of Germany, who came to Clark County, Ohio. Growing
up in Springfield, George P. Grube attended the Snow
district school and Nelson's Business College and remained
with his parents, who owned fifteen acres of land, now the
block of 1700 Limestone Street, until his marriage, which
occurred February 20, 1899, when he married Carrie E.
Morgan, born at Tampico, Indiana, a daughter of
William and Rachel (Mahanka) Morgan, natives of Tampico,
Indiana. After his marriage Mr. Grube built a
house just south of the Home Road, on North Limestone
Street, where he resided for seven years, during which time
he continued working with his father in manufacturing brick,
in which industry the elder man had built up a large
business. Selling his interest in this, Mr. Grube
then bought one acre of land about two blocks south of his
home, on North Limestone street, and erected a new
residence. He was engaged in manufacturing brick on his own
account until 1915, when he sold his business and bought one
and three-quarter acres, with a frontage of 124 feet and a
depth of 576 feet, on which he put up another residence.
While working in greenhouses he at the same time began to
raise single-comb, Mottled Ancona chickens, and has
exhibited them in the principal poultry shows of the
country. He won first prize at Chicago upon two occasions,
first prize at Cincinnati; and in January, 1922, the first
prize at Cleveland. He sold one hen for $100. He also
received two prizes at the poultry show held at the Madison
Square Garden, New York City, and he is still engaged in
breeding and raising these fine chickens, and, as before
stated, is raising the Pekingese dogs so in demand for pets
by the wealthy. Mr. and Mrs. Grube have no children.
They belong to St. John's Lutheran Church of Springfield.
Politically he is a democrat but he is not active in public
matters. Fraternally he maintains membership with Lone Star
Lodge No. 732, I. O. O. F. Mr. Grube has
always been a hard worker and deserves the success which has
attended his efforts. His fame as a poultry fancier has gone
far beyond local bounds, and his exhibits are looked forward
to with great interest by others in the same line of
business as well as those who seek at these shows especially
fine specimens for their own flocks.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 187 -
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PERRY
ANDREW GRUBE. Although now living retired at
Springfield, Perry Andrew Grube has had a useful life
and accomplished much of a practical nature, doing
everything on his own account, for he left school when he
was eleven years old to earn his own living. He was born in
German Township, Clark County, Ohio, May 11, 1859, a son of
Jacob and Catherine (Nawman) Grube, natives of
Tiffin, Ohio, and German Township, respectively. The
paternal grandparents, Jacob and Philapine (Spearer)
Grube, natives of the Rhine Province, Germany, came to
the United States about 1836, and remained until 1838 at
Tiffin, Ohio, but in the latter year came to Springfield and
bought 600 acres on West North Street. The maternal
grandparents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Kemp) Nawman, were
natives of Virginia, where the great-grandfather, Thomas
Nawman, was born in 1779. About 1801 Thomas Nawman
brought his family to Clark County, Ohio, traveling across
country with three wagons drawn by oxen. He took up land in
German Township, cleared his farm, improved it, and
developed a large property. This farm was later divided
among his children, and Jacob Nawman received his
share. The parents of Perry Andrew Grube settled in
Springfield after their marriage, but a year later moved to
the present site of Ridgewood, German Township, now a part
of Springfield, where they owned 156 acres, and this they
operated for many years, but subsequently moved to a farm of
fifty-six acres nearby, and there he died March 23, 1915,
his widow surviving him and making her home at Tippettville,
Florida, with her daughter, Mrs. Laura Brenning. The
children born to Jacob and Catherine Grube were as
follows: Perry Andrew, whose name heads this
review; Laura, who is Mrs. Luther Brenning;
Benjamin, who is deceased; Sarah, who is Mrs.
Wilbur Morris of Fremont, Ohio; Christopher and
Solomon P., both of whom live on Grube Road,
Springfield. From the time he was nine until he was fifteen
Perry Andrew Grube lived on a farm in Ridgewood, and
then moved to one in German Township. Until he was eleven
years old he attended the district schools, and then began
working in a wood yard, where he remained for four and
one-half years, during which time he disposed of the wood on
twenty-five acres of land, hauling it to different customers
at Springfield, and was then engaged in farming for a time.
When he was twenty-two years old, he went on the road as a
salesman and traveled through Indian Territory and Texas for
three years, then returning to Clark County and going on his
father's farm in German Township. In 1896 he married and
moved to Grube Road, which was named in his honor,
and was there engaged in farming for five years, at the
expiration of that time going into the dairy business on
Grube Road and Saint Paris Pike, which he conducted for
eleven years. He then bought 142 acres of land from his
father-in-law in Harmony Township, and for three and
one-half years conducted this property, and then abandoned
farming and once more went into a milk business and
maintained a milk route. On May 12, 1910, he organized the
Home Diary, in partnership with George Ustler
and George Wendel, and this was so successful
a venture that William and Orville Trout
were admitted to the firm in 1912, and the manufacture of
ice cream, under the name of the Standard brand, was added.
This connection was continued for eight years, and in 1922
Mr. Grube disposed of his interests and is now
retired. He owns his handsome modern residence 1206 Fountain
Avenue, Springfield, ten valuable lots at Ridgewood, and a
farm of 156 acres of land three miles west of Fremont,
German Township, which is operated by his sons. On March 18,
1896, Mr. Grube married Addie F. Slentz
born in Harmony Township, a daughter of Henry and Ruth
(Bennett) Slentz, natives of German Township; and
granddaughter of Erastus and Elizabeth
(Dickerson) Bennett, natives of Kentucky. Mrs.
Grube died July 29, 1911, having borne her husband the
following children: Henry who lives at Kalamazoo, Michigan;
Jessie who is Mrs. Freeman Campbell of
Plattsburg, Ohio; and Andrew, Ira and John Lewis,
all of whom are farmers of German Township. On May 11, 1915,
Mr. Grube married Mrs. Minnie (Thompson)
Brown, born in Pickaway County, Ohio, the widow of
Charles Brown. Mrs. Grube has two
children by her first marriage: Turney A., who lives
at Albany, New York; and Bessie, who is Mrs. Clyde
Dillon of Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Grube is
independent in his political affiliations, and for nine
years served on the School Board of Springfield and Harmony
Townships and represented Harmony Township on the Board of
Supervisors of Clark County for nine years. He belongs to
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Grube
is a most highly respected citizen and is recognized as one
of the best representatives of the men who have made their
own way in the world that the county possesses.
SOURCE: A Standard History of Springfield and Clark
County, Ohio by Benjamin F. Prince, 1922 - Page 201 -
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